When you stroll the aisles of your favorite grocery store, it's tempting to complain about just how much more everything costs these days. But you might want to think twice before you start griping because according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, we spend less money on food these days than our grandparents used to.

Pizza was a hot topic last week! We summed up our best pizza tips in this post and then got one more great one in the comments. It has to do with pizza dough, and where to buy it, if you don't have time to make it. Here's the cheapest and best place to buy good pizza dough:

Q: I was looking for some suggestions on freezer staples — the items I can buy for those nights I get home late and just don't have time to cook dinner. As someone who enjoys cooking quality meals, the options are limiting, and processed food in general turns me off.

Boneless country-style pork ribs are a bit strange — they're rib-like strips of meat but are in fact boneless. If they don't have any bones or ribs in them, why are they still called country-style pork ribs?

I've had my KitchenAid mixer since I was in high school. Yes, that seems a little bit crazy, but when you find a deal too good to pass up, it's best not to pass it up.

In all the years I've had the mixer, it's found a home in many different kitchens. It has traveled along with me from Kansas to Iowa, back to Kansas, to New York, to California, and back to New York. Somewhere along the way, I got a cover for the mixer, and it was one of the best things I've purchased.

I am fluent in the language of grocery. I speak POS and SOP, FIFO and EDLP*. I believe Doose’s Market is the true star of Gilmore Girls and deserves its own mention in the opening credits. My favorite Christmas song is Dan Fogelberg’s "Same Old Auld Lang Syne," because unrequited love in a grocery store parking lot is the best kind of love. And I can’t help but feel that East of Eden is as much a story about the advent of the modern grocery as it is a biblical allegory. I mean, how can you have a produce department without a cold supply chain? (Admittedly, the phrase "cold supply chain" rarely, if ever, appears in Steinbeck's work.)

Today The Kitchn is headed to the International Home + Housewares show in Chicago! If you've been reading The Kitchn for a while, you know that we hit this show every year on the lookout for new kitchen trends, products, and releases from our favorite brands like KitchenAid, Staub, Chef'n and more.

This week we'll reveal KitchenAid's new 2015 stand mixer color (always a highlight), as well as a roundup of the best things we saw at the show. Stay tuned!